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Personal care workers' code of conduct voluntary: witness2:22

Supplied video obtained Wednesday, February 13, 2019 of the Australian College of Nursing's Deborah Parker speaking at the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Ms Parker says registration of personal care workers is "unregulated". Workers can adhere to a voluntary code, enforced at state level, but the uptake has been sporadic. "It doesn't give protection for somebody who may have not acted in the best interests of somebody within the workplace, there is no record of that, and nowhere to take that through a criminal prosecution," Ms Parker says. (AAP Video/Supplied/Royal Commission) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY